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Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool

The Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool provides prescriptive guidance to get you started with planning your topology.

Version:

7577.117

File Name:

LyncPlanningTool.msi

Date Published:

2/10/2011

File Size:

2.0 MB

The Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool asks you a series of questions about your organization and the features that you are interested in. The planning tool will then use your answers to recommend a topology based on the tested Microsoft Lync Server 2010 user model.

Your organization may have a different user model. If so, you should adjust the recommended topology as necessary to fit your organization’s needs.

What’s New in the Planning Tool for Lync Server 2010?

You can select virtualized server roles for your topology.

The Planning Tool offers more granular capacity guidance than in earlier releases.

You can customize individual branch site information.

The topology pages display site information, such as number of users and number of enabled users for various modalities.

The Planning Tool invites you to participate in the Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP), helping make the planning tool better.

You can view your edge network diagram and enter FQDNs and IP addresses and view the certificates, DNS settings, and firewall settings for your edge network in the central sites when using DNS Load Balancing or Hardware Load Balancing for Edge Servers. You can also import this information to Topology Builder. You can also export the diagram and the data to the Microsoft Visio drawing and diagramming software.

You can export the global topology, with its corresponding branch sites, as well as the number of concurrent calls connecting each central site, to the PSTN into Visio. The Visio output contains improved drawings for each of the site topologies.

The Planning Tool exports a list of the hardware for all sites, including branch sites, to a Microsoft Excel worksheet.

The Planning Tool accommodates more supported topologies for Enterprise Voice and dial-in conferencing.

Navigation between topologies and server information has been improved.

You can resize or maximize the Planning Tool window to better accommodate your screen resolution.

The Planning Tool provides a menu bar and a toolbar for available actions.

The Planning Tool incorporates new Microsoft Lync Server 2010 features and topology recommendations.

Download the file by clicking the Download button and saving the file to your hard disk.

Double-click the program file on your hard disk to start the Setup program.

Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the installation.

To uninstall this download:

On the Start menu, point to Settings and then click Control Panel.

Double-click Add/Remove Programs.

In the list of currently installed programs, select Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Planning Tool and then click Remove or Add/Remove. If a dialog box appears, follow the instructions to remove the program.